Hello Everybody,
This is my first post and would appreciate some input on my limited room treatment plans.
I live in South Korea and it is really difficult / near impossible for me to find any affordable bass traps, or rockwool to make my own.
However, I did manage to get hold of a few acoustic wool panels from a guy who was ripping up his studio. Unfortunately, I could only get what I could take in a taxi, and by the next day the rest was gone. They are literally just the wool with some fabric glued on the front - no frames, not even even cuts - desperate stuff. In terms of DIY, I'm limited to cutting them up and wrapping them in fabric. That's it, I'm afraid.
This is what I have to work with:
5 panels measuring 110 x 65 x 5cm (approximately)
First of all, I'm cursed with the 8x10x8(ceiling) room (approximately). Concrete walls, window, storage room. Now I understand that a 5cm thick panel is not adequate for bass trapping in such a small room, so I was thinking to cut them in half and double them up. This would give me smaller but thicker traps.
So, here is my humble plan. I would love some feedback or suggestions as to what you would do with such limited options:
1. - Make 5 bass trap panels measuring 55*65*10cm
- Hang 4 of them in the four top corners. There is a door in one, but I can use hooks and attach it when I'm mixing.
- Use the 5th panel as a ceiling cloud.
Questions: 1. Is it better to have them in the top corners rather than the bottom or middle (i.e. behind the speakers)?
2. What's more important- length or width? I could also make them 110 x 32.5 x 10, but this is very narrow.
3. Would it be better to place the 5th in the middle of the front wall? Or perhaps as two 5cm thick early
reflection panels?
As for additional treatment, it will have to be foam panels and a poor man's diffuser.
Some extra information:
I understand that I won't ever be able to get anything ideal with this setup. However, my aims are to absorb as much bass as I can (I'm getting terrible standing wave cancellation in my listening position) for mixing, and sort my early reflection points enough to make passable* acoustic recordings.
As you can see in the photos, I'm currently using an old pair of Spirit Absolute 2 monitors. These are two big for my room, and, even when I had a better room in the past, I wasn't happy with them. I'm going to buy some smaller and better quality monitors (either Adam a3x / a5x / or some Genelec 1010s which have some room compensation settings). Interface is about to be upgraded too. However, I would like to see what I can do with my room first before investing. Would hate to be restricted to headphones.
*I make instrumental electronic / ambient / downtempo, and most of the acoustic recordings I use end up heavily modified or disguised, but I would love to be able to get some better acoustic guitar recordings.
Hope to hear your input
This is my first post and would appreciate some input on my limited room treatment plans.
I live in South Korea and it is really difficult / near impossible for me to find any affordable bass traps, or rockwool to make my own.
However, I did manage to get hold of a few acoustic wool panels from a guy who was ripping up his studio. Unfortunately, I could only get what I could take in a taxi, and by the next day the rest was gone. They are literally just the wool with some fabric glued on the front - no frames, not even even cuts - desperate stuff. In terms of DIY, I'm limited to cutting them up and wrapping them in fabric. That's it, I'm afraid.
This is what I have to work with:
5 panels measuring 110 x 65 x 5cm (approximately)
First of all, I'm cursed with the 8x10x8(ceiling) room (approximately). Concrete walls, window, storage room. Now I understand that a 5cm thick panel is not adequate for bass trapping in such a small room, so I was thinking to cut them in half and double them up. This would give me smaller but thicker traps.
So, here is my humble plan. I would love some feedback or suggestions as to what you would do with such limited options:
1. - Make 5 bass trap panels measuring 55*65*10cm
- Hang 4 of them in the four top corners. There is a door in one, but I can use hooks and attach it when I'm mixing.
- Use the 5th panel as a ceiling cloud.
Questions: 1. Is it better to have them in the top corners rather than the bottom or middle (i.e. behind the speakers)?
2. What's more important- length or width? I could also make them 110 x 32.5 x 10, but this is very narrow.
3. Would it be better to place the 5th in the middle of the front wall? Or perhaps as two 5cm thick early
reflection panels?
As for additional treatment, it will have to be foam panels and a poor man's diffuser.
Some extra information:
I understand that I won't ever be able to get anything ideal with this setup. However, my aims are to absorb as much bass as I can (I'm getting terrible standing wave cancellation in my listening position) for mixing, and sort my early reflection points enough to make passable* acoustic recordings.
As you can see in the photos, I'm currently using an old pair of Spirit Absolute 2 monitors. These are two big for my room, and, even when I had a better room in the past, I wasn't happy with them. I'm going to buy some smaller and better quality monitors (either Adam a3x / a5x / or some Genelec 1010s which have some room compensation settings). Interface is about to be upgraded too. However, I would like to see what I can do with my room first before investing. Would hate to be restricted to headphones.
*I make instrumental electronic / ambient / downtempo, and most of the acoustic recordings I use end up heavily modified or disguised, but I would love to be able to get some better acoustic guitar recordings.
Hope to hear your input